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Summary: How a semi-automatic handgun ejects a used shell after firing a round in this free gun safety video.
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Lee Laster Lee Laster lives in Western Massachusetts, works in the public safety sector. He is a state certified firearms instructor for the past 6 years. He is a partne... read more
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Questions & AnswersWe spoke previously in another series with the 40 Caliber Semi-Automatic about the ejection port and the rounds are expelled from the weapon or ejected. Same theory, it's a different make, it's a different model and different caliber so it may eject rounds differently. But in theory the rounds still come from the right. They may go to the right to the rear, they may go to the right 5 feet out, 10 feet out same as far as 15 to 20 feet out depending on your ejection. It depends on what type of ammunition, the springs, the type of weapon system you are using. That is what the slide and ejection port is all about. Getting the other rounds out by the same token after it expels that round the way it works in conjunction with the power from the blasts, the gases causes it to come forward and as it is coming forward, it is chambering another round. That is what gives us the cycle of fire. That is what let's us to continue to fire as many rounds a magazine will hold without reloading because everything in theory works on the spring and combustion level of the round that has just been fired.
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Great instructor! Very organized, concise, clear. Thanks!